{"id":90395,"title":"Mesmer — Cursor for CTOs","tagline":"The operating system for 10x companies.","body":"Hey YC, we’re [João](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaopdepaula/), [Lucas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasbrunosilva/), and [Sergio](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergio-bergmann/), cofounders of [**Mesmer**](http://mesmer.co/) — **Cursor for CTOs.**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMO7TQUZIuU\n\nWe’re **repeat founders and CTOs behind startups like Glio (S13) and [Origin Financial](http://useorigin.com/) ($400M)**. In every team we built, we ran into the same challenge: each new customer, employee, and feature made it harder to understand what was actually going on. We spent our days in back-to-back meetings and chasing status updates, and forced our teams to do busywork just to keep us in the loop. **Yet we still didn’t see problems until something broke**.\n\nAI is already making the 10x engineer possible. But there’s no solution that helps **product development orgs — and product leaders — 10x themselves**. That’s what we’re building.\n\n# **Enter Mesmer**\n\n**Mesmer gives founders and CTOs full context on their org without drowning in meetings or chasing people for updates**. It watches the work itself — code, specs, designs, meetings — to build a live, detailed picture of what’s going on. Our customers can keep their teams fast, flat, and focused as they scale — and free from busywork.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=90395\u0026key=user_uploads/178/c0f0220d-62be-4e38-9246-ecd3c2493a79)\n\nWe are starting with **an AI chief of staff for product development orgs**. Every week, it delivers a report showing what actually happened across all in-flight projects: what moved forward, what shipped, and what’s stuck. Founders and CTOs can then ask questions and get in-depth answers based on their team’s actual code, specs, and designs, like:\n\n* Why is this project slipping?\n* Who’s the best engineer to unblock it?\n* What architecture did we use in this repo?\n* How does the business logic work for this categorization engine?\n* What changed in the roadmap last week?\n\n**We’re already live with 10+ companies worth over $3B** and have reviewed over 70M lines of code along the way. We’d love to help you, too.\n\n# **Special Offer**\n\nWe’re onboarding companies as fast as we can, but, if you’re a CTO leading a team of 20+ engineers (or know someone who is) **email me at [joao@mesmer.co](mailto:joao@mesmer.co) and we’ll skip the line** to help you run a flat, fast, focused org right away.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=90395\u0026key=user_uploads/178/0a177036-5476-45b7-bd33-cfd2b5fb72a3)\n\n","slug":"NVz-mesmer-cursor-for-ctos","created_at":"2025-05-14T16:35:47.709Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:55:45.228Z","total_vote_count":98,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NVz-mesmer-cursor-for-ctos","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=90395\u0026key=user_uploads/178/c0f0220d-62be-4e38-9246-ecd3c2493a79","company":{"id":30523,"name":"Mesmer","slug":"mesmer","url":"https://mesmer.co","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6139ccbb34b49d774e2708fc51e7b70f16db36d5.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","SaaS","Productivity","Team Collaboration","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30523"}}